Road repair scam: 2 contractors get pre-arrest bail

Mumbai, Jul 12 (PTI) The Bombay High Court today granted interim protection from arrest to two road contractors who are accused in a Rs 350-crore road repair scam.

Justice P N Deshmukh, while granting the interim bail to road contractors Jitendra Kikavat and Manish Kasliwal, observed that others accused in the case got bail from lower court, and that the duo cooperated with the police in the investigation.

The high court granted interim bail to the two contractors for a surety of Rs one lakh each, and directed them to appear daily before the police concerned from July 20 to 23.

A case was lodged with Azad Maidan police station on April 27, this year after BMCs internal probe revealed that more than two dozen roads in the city were of poor quality.